RH Line calls printed March 23

Posted:
03/22/2013 08:14:08 PM MDT

Spending

"Rep. Cory Gardner has just voted to add $65 million to the deficit for Colorado fire restoration. His Republican Party wants to spends billions more on national defense, a border defense and other expensive projects. Yet they continually attack our government and obsessively demand lower taxes on the wealthy, all the while complaining about the national deficit. Go figure."

Civil Unions

"There's a reason people are leaving California in droves. High taxes, many politicians trying to control their lives, failing schools, high crime, everything that goes with failed socialism. Then I turn on the TV and there's Gov. Hickenlooper laughing and joking with the Denver Statehouse legislators, Democrats controlling the Legislature now and they're just going down the same road. It's sad to see such a proud common sense state like Colorado turn into another failed socialist state."

"In your front page article about civil unions, the speaker said the law passed because of shift in public opinion because of hard work. That's not the case. Like recent gun control laws, civil unions only passed because the radical liberals were elected and in control of both the Statehouse and the senate as well as the governorship. We are no longer the free West but now similar to the liberal eastern states like New York. Hopefully the true citizens of Colorado will get out and vote in 2014 and 2016 and show these radical thinkers what Colorado wants and really believe about their loss in control of their state."

"I see Gov. Hickenlooper signed the civil union bill. This truly is not a good day for the citizens of Colorado because this bill endorses a lifestyle that is unhealthy, is unnatural and is ungodly and I pray that God's blessings will be on our country regardless of the direction that we're heading. We're heading in the wrong direction with these kind of bills being passed."

Fracking

"They're saying fracking is still something we know too little about. The fact that they can withhold information to me is a dangerous thing. We may find out years later what was in it and that it had carcinogens that accumulate over a period time. Let's be more cautious than the oil companies want us to be. After all, they are after making a profit."

"Fracking is so wasteful and destructive that it is akin to cutting down a 75-foot tree to make one toothpick. It squanders enormous amounts of water and other resources to produce little useful product. All this while creating deadly pollution and destroying the environment. Then the gas is fired off and the oil is sold on the world market. Read Friday's front page article about gas prices. We should support green energy and conservation instead."

Gun laws

"Following the reasoning that citizens should have all the weaponry that the government does would mean that your neighbors and mine should be allowed to have machine guns, and bazookas, and flame throwers and rocket launchers. And we haven't even gotten to the Air Force and the Navy yet. Yes. That is ludicrous. There's no way a civilized society can exist if everybody has all of these weapons."

"To Friday's 'Squeaky-Clean' in the RH line that wants to know what happens to their gun-buying check. It's treated the same as your birth certificate, immunization, Social Security card, driver's license state, federal tax reports, marriage license, property taxes, credit reports and on and on. They're all permanent records. Just think. You're squeaky clean so you have nothing to worry about. When this stupid mad gun craze calms down you'll even be able to buy ammo for it."

Voting

"I have learned one thing in my working lifetime and that is, is voting really meaningful and is the majority really the majority. It will be interesting to see what happens with the marijuana problem and the illegal immigration issue after the gun law passage and the civil union passage."